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I wanted to provide my client with a way to exclude a particular drive from their servers from scanning the logical disk monitor. This drive is set for the paging file only and is a very small partition size. This was generating lots of alerts in SCOM due to the number of servers being monitored. The process below is what I came up with to disable this alert for all drives labeled “D:” while still continuing to monitor free space on all other drives.

First I created a group named Windows 2008 Logical Disk Drive D:

This group does not need explicit members. Configure the dynamic members as follows:

There are no Exclusions or subgroups needed. Finish the wizard.

Now go into monitoring and create an override for the group and this monitor:

That’s it. You now have an override for this drive on all servers. All other drives will continue to report free space issues.

As SCOM agents begin to rollout it can be tricky to keep track of which agents you have enabled the proxy agent on and which agents need to have it enabled. This post will help you enable the SCOM proxy agent for all systems that need it enabled.

First open notepad and copy the following lines into notepad:

##Enables Agent Proxy for All agents where Agent Proxy is disabled
Get-SCOMAgent | where {$_.ProxyingEnabled.Value -eq $False} | Enable-SCOMAgentProxy -Confirm

Save the file. Example ProxyEnabled.ps1

Open the OperationsManager PowerShell

Run the command

The agents will now have the Proxy Agent enabled.

I ran into an issue where I noticed the installed version of SCOM 2012 said it was an evaluation edition. This post will show how to move the SCOM 2012 install from evaluation to retail.

This can be accomplished through the following steps.

1. First to find out how much time is left on the evaluation version open the Operations Manager Shell and run the following command:

Get-SCOMManagementGroup : ft skuforlicense. Version, timeofexpiration -a

1. Open the Operations Manager PowerShell

Type in the following command: Set-SCOMLicense –ProductId <your product id: XXXXX-XXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX>.

Click “Y”

***Note*** I put this error in here in case you experience this. Make sure your account has rights to the registry. If you still receive the error there is a workaround below.

(Workaround)

1. A work around for this would be to Open the Windows PowerShell Command and run the following command:

Import-Module OperationsManager

Set-SCOMLicense –ProductID XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX

The command will only take a few seconds to complete.

Finally restart the following services:

System Center Management

System Center Management Configuration

System Center Data Access Service

1. Now open SCOM 2012 go to help and about. You should now see Retail.